Chapter 360: Australia

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After the donation ceremony, Ryan returned to the office of Orion Films, and John-Denise put a thick stack of documents on the desk.

These are the documents he needs to work on.

Looking at the thick stack of documents on the desk, Ryan rubbed his temples and said, "Some less important documents can be handed over to Jon or Nancy."

"For other important things, you can tell me directly."

He needs to finish processing important documents as soon as possible.

Before Friday, Ryan will go to New York. The location of the "Spiderman" crew is mainly concentrated in New York.

In addition, most of the preparatory work for the crew has been completed, and only the leading actor has not been decided, which also needs to be decided by Ryan himself.

At that moment, John-Denise picked out some less important documents and put them aside, "Time Warner sent a dinner invitation letter, and expressed their desire to discuss the authorization of MGM's film copyright library."

"Reject it, just say that I don't have time for the time being." Ryan didn't even think about it, and directly chose to refuse.

It is impossible for Orion Films to easily authorize the film copyright library.

Moreover, the next step of the plan will be based on MGM's film copyright library.

"There are also Sony representatives who want to meet with Orion Pictures executives."

John-Denise showed a strange look, and said, "The other party also hopes to negotiate about the licensing of MGM's film copyright library."

The same is authorization, but the authorization requirements of the two are different.

Unlike Time Warner, which wants to continue to license MGM's film rights library, which means broadcasting rights on television broadcast networks, Sony is different.

Sony hopes to obtain a disc distribution license for MGM's video rights library.

"Sony!"

A gleam flashed in Ryan's eyes, and he said, "You can touch it first."

"But don't make any promises, and don't say no."

He clearly remembered that in his previous life, Sony bought MGM together with several other consortia for MGM's film copyright library.

Moreover, he also knows why Sony wants to get MGM's film copyright library.

This involves the standard competition of the new generation of DVD.

If Sony wants to become the maker of the next-generation DVD standard, it must obtain MGM's film copyright library and obtain film copyright authorization as much as possible.

"In addition, ask someone to ask Toshiba Corporation of Japan to see if it is interested in obtaining the authorization of MGM's film copyright library." Ryan rubbed his chin, thinking that the licensing price for Sony alone would not be too high.

If Toshiba, a competitor, joins in, then the authorization of the MGM film copyright library is likely to become a sky-high price.

Sony supports the Blu-ray standard, and Toshiba supports the HD-DVD standard. The competition between the two involves a very huge consumer market.

Never skimp on money.

John-Denise wrote it down and continued: "There is one more thing. The Australian Fox studio hopes to cooperate with Orion Films. They can contact the Australian government to help the crew obtain tax rebates and preferential funds."

"Fox Studio Australia!" Ryan was suddenly speechless.

This is an overseas studio owned by Twentieth Century Fox and one of the three major studios in Australia. It has just opened for a few years and can provide a lot of advanced equipment.

If there hadn't been a conflict with Twentieth Century Fox, Ryan might have agreed.

After all, the studio of Orion Films in New Zealand has not been built for a long time. It is estimated that it will not be completed for a long time, so they can only choose other studios to cooperate.

Another point that Ryan couldn't deny was that this studio had just been built, unlike the studios in Los Angeles, the studios were dilapidated, the equipment was very old, the circuits were aging, and there were even many safety hazards.

A newly built studio obviously does not have these defects, and many Hollywood crews have already used it as a shooting location, such as "The Matrix", "Moulin Rouge", "Star Wars Prequel: Attack of the Clones" "and many more.

"Let them go to 20th Century Fox and Tom Rothman instead of Orion Films for cooperation." Ryan could not cooperate with an overseas studio owned by 20th Century Fox.

This is not just because of the conflict between the two parties, but because Ryan feels that there is no need for this, or he is unwilling to cooperate with 20th Century Fox.

However, Australia is indeed a good location, and the various preferential policies are much better than New Zealand.

At the same time, "Black Hawk Down" ushered in its first working day.

It earned $5.32 million at the box office on Monday, $4.36 million on Tuesday, $4.08 million on Wednesday, and $3.56 million on Thursday.

Adding up the four working days, a total of US$17.32 million was earned at the box office, including the US$33.1 million box office earned in the first three days of the weekend, and the cumulative North American box office of the film reached US$50.42 million.

A very nice number.

For a movie with an investment of 90 million US dollars, it is enough to be regarded as a big success.

In a short period of time, no large-scale commercial film was released in the North American box office market.

The only opponent to face is "Hunting U-571" released by Universal Pictures on April 7.

The film, with a budget of $62 million, is adapted from historical materials and tells the story of a damaged German submarine U-571 detected by the Allies in the North Atlantic during World War II.

A distress signal was being sent to the German army, so the Allied forces quickly and secretly converted a warship into a German maintenance ship, preparing to use the maintenance of U-571 as a cover to forcibly seize the code decoder on the submarine.

It's a rare action drama war movie.

However, the box office of this film in the first three days of the weekend was only over US$10 million~www.wuxiaspot.com~ and it has been released for more than ten days, so it is difficult to bring competition to "Black Hawk Down".

(Baidu Encyclopedia records that the release time on April 17 is wrong, and the real release time is April 7.)

It can be predicted that with the box office trend of "Black Hawk Down", it is only a matter of time before the North American box office breaks through 100 million.

With the arrival of Friday, the film not only ushered in the next weekend, but also ushered in large-scale releases in the box office markets of many overseas countries.

The original "Black Hawk Down" had a North American box office of 108 million US dollars, overseas box office of only 64.35 million US dollars, and a global box office of 172 million US dollars.

Compared with the investment of 90 million US dollars, it is not very successful.

The overseas box office of the film is too low, so that Sony Pictures cannot reap investment from the box office, and can only rely on the income from surrounding copyrights.

Of course, this film can't be said to be a failure, at least it didn't lose money.

Therefore, the overseas release of the film is very critical, even more critical than the North American box office.